lurkette

So ratbastid and I are looking for some art for our house (specifically our bedroom). We almost just bought a couple of framed Klimt prints, but decided to wait.

And then I thought...

...why get something you can buy anywhere when we could get something original?

But it's such a pain, hunting around for something we like. We don't even know where to look for local artists.

So:
1. where's a good place to start looking locally for artists?
and
2. I don't know if this is the right place to negotiate this, but are any of you artists out there interested in a commission? We'd love to have something from our TFP community, and it'd be too awesome to support a real, live artist instead of a web site.

I don't want to be too specific about what we want, just that it should be:

colorful (not too primary - lots of jewel-tones)
sexy
sensual - curvy

If anybody's interested, we'd love to take a look at some of your work and hear about prices and stuff.

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